If you’ve used Linux for a long time, you know that we are spoiled these days. Getting a new piece of hardware back in the day was often a horrible affair, requiring custom kernels and lots ...

Linus Torvalds has said that the third release candidate of Linux 7.0 is even bigger than last week, and last week's was big.

There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That ...

Linus Torvalds released the third release candidate (RC3) for Linux Kernel 7.0 on March 8, 2026. While early versions of a ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and security technology for over a dozen years, explaining the latest features, privacy tricks, and top recommendations. With degrees ...

Abstract: The Linux kernel offers nearly 20,000 configuration options, making it highly customizable but also extremely challenging to manually optimize for performance. The diversity of operating ...

This is the source code repository for our paper "JunoBench: A Benchmark Dataset of Crashes in Python Machine Learning Jupyter Notebooks" which constructs a benchmark dataset of crashes in Python ML ...

OverlayFS: Uses the kernel's OverlayFS to merge module directories with system partitions. This is the default strategy for supported filesystems. Magic Mount: Uses recursive bind mounts to mirror ...